Wild Edibles Forage App Description

Explore free edible plants in your backyard The ultimate foraging guide : identify, cultivate, and prepare over 250 plants! Created in collaboration between "Wildman" Steve Brill, Becky Lerner, Christopher Nyerges, and Winterroot.
• Identify using up to 8 images per plant (over 1,000 images in total!)
• Now includes map enabled notes - privately track locations of your favorite plants
* Filter by region, season, and other plant attributes
• West coast specific plants from Becky Lerner and Christopher Nyerges
• New cultivation information helps wild plants stay forgeable year after year
• The same identification, harvesting, preparation, and recipes from the "Wildman" you've already learned, plus 50 more!
• Choose to download high resolution versions of images
Now your favorite foraging reference and identification tool has a sleek new interface and even more content! In addition to hundreds of plants from nationally renowned forager “Wildman” Steve Brill, we are very excited to announce contributions from west coast foragers Rebecca Lerner and Christopher Nyerges.
If this isn’t enough for you (as it wasn’t for us), you’ll be delighted to know we’ve also added geolocated notes! How does it work? When you add a note you now have the option to add a location. Should you choose to, your note will be added to a map right at the point you are standing. Now you can tag stands and specific plants to return to later! These notes are also added in a list for for easy viewing.
Wild Edibles is a massive compendium of foraging knowledge suitable for beginners and experts alike. Use this app at home as a quick reference, or in the field as a replacement for cumbersome field guides. Providing the subject's most comprehensive resource in a compact digital form, this app takes wild edible plants to a whole new level of accessibility.
#### IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING CRASHES ###
Know first of all that this version of the application is a complete rewrite - necessary for us to continue to offer the app - but this means that in a small set of situations crashes may occur. We have crash reporting installed on all apps, and are working to fix crashes when we see them. If you have a specific issue, please just send us a support request and we can work together to determine the issue. We are ready and waiting to make sure everyone has the best experience possible!!

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App Reviews

Great potential, poor follow through

3

By Discipleforlife

Love the idea. Love the initial launch. Disappointed in the utter lack of follow through with additional plants and info, and the issues that many have already mentioned never being addressed. Hopeful these issues will be addressed :)

Great resource!

5

By Magic Rainbow Doctor

This app is awesome. A must have for being out in the field. In one of the more recent updates, as other have said the warning info pops up with no way to exit. Quite annoying especially because it was not so in earlier versions. Would be great to see this fixed.

Better in some ways, worse in others

3

By Ericdcompton

This is still a great app, considering the information you get with each plant and the hi res photos of different species at different seasons, growth stages, roots, etc. It has become glitchy though with the latest updates. The biggest one that gets to me is when you click the warning symbol to see what could be dangerous or maybe a poisonous lookalike, it shows the warning and there is no way to get out of that warning screen. You have to force kill the app and open it back up again, starting over from the beginning. This is annoying, but it’s still the best thing I have come across in either an app or physical book. There are other books on ethnobotany that are more extensive in species (I think one is even mentioned inside the app somewhere), but those books don’t have near the amount of usable information or various photos as this app does. I’m still very happy with this app and hope it never becomes unusable due to iOS updates without app updates. I just hope the little bugs are fixed sometime.

No Huckleberry!?!

2

By wendybee

I plunked down $6 specifically to help ID huckleberry in this area, which I believe is abundant (but I need to be sure before wildcrafting), but there's no info! Plant selection for West Coast is weak at best. Wanted to love this, but I'm really disappointed.

No southeast region!

1

By Dwolfwd

This includes all regions except southeast, wish I would have been told before spending $$$

Buggy

2

By M*dragon

This used to be a great app but recent changes have made it nearly unusable. It spawns errors at random times and locks up when you try to read warnings. The new navigation makes looking at pictures cumbersome and it lacks a basic search function.

Excellent app that keeps improving

5

By 1userofthisapp

Like carrying a foraging book in your pocket
Great personal support to improvements and issues

A Great Reference for the Field

5

By A BlueBird

This app is a very handy guide to have if you are getting into foraging. Mobile yet detailed, it has a lot of great features that will help you learn and record your findings. I have had little trouble so far with the minor bugs mentioned. I am looking forward to social media being added so users can share info. If you get an opportunity to join one of "Wildman" Brill's foraging walks, for goodness sakes, don't miss it! It is a great experience.

Lots of info, but could use more organization.

3

By vibeichi

I live on the east coast of Florida, north of Jupiter. I try to look up edible plants in my area and can't seem to narrow it down to my region. There is no database for the southeastern area of the US. I am nervous about trying the plants here, except obvious ones like clover and dandelion, because it is hard to find ways to match them to this database and then to my region. What would be good is to avoid the plant pages to what states they are seen in, and perhaps their characteristics so people can search by adding tags that match up. For example "Florida, spiky leaves, hairy stems, dark red berries", which would return any results featuring those tags, while filtering out the rest. For the money paid to own this app, which is great by all other standards except filtering, it would really increase its value immensely, especially in the field.
For goodness sake, after all this time, please send someone to the south east to study the plants here and add them to your database.

A fabulous field guide for foraging in your pocket

5

By Sabrina Raspberries

I love this app, it's worth every penny! The plants listing is huge and growing. I love that you can search by region and season! There is a tone of pics, info and listings and warnings about poisonous look-alike species. It ALSO lets you add your own field notes. You can add pics, notes and location markers to keep track of plant locations. If you are lucky enough, take a walking tour with Wildman Steve Brill. He's not only a wonderful teacher but also a real NY character! His entertaining tours are full of history, myths, culinary & medicinal uses, and family friendly cornball humor. It's a guaranteed good time!